Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt union two blue hand-drawn hands meet

two blue hand-drawn hands meet in the center

" above blue block text reading "HAMBURGERS

Places like this defined an era when the ocean was the only amenity that mattered

" and "LEADVILLE

Rayne Rice Birds - Louisiana - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt union two blue hand-drawn hands meetRayne sits in the rice growing prairies of Acadiana, where the long billed blackbirds known locally as rice birds shadowed the harvest each fall. The team carried that name when it became a charter member of the Class D Louisiana State League in 1920, lined up beside the Abbeville Sluggers, Alexandria Tigers, Lafayette Hubs, New Iberia Sugar Boys, and Oakdale Lumberjacks. The franchise folded along with the rest of the league on July 14 of its first